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Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.
Walter Darby Bannard
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Walter Darby Bannard
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: January 1
Died: 2016
Died: October 2
Painter
Printmaker
New Haven
Connecticut
Darby Bannard
W. Darby Bannard
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Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.
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Art rides in on pleasure.
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When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
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Art is too popular. If plumbing was as popular as art is we would have amateur plumbers running around brandishing wrenches and Roto-Rooters, climbing in and out of sewers and writing gibberish about pipe systems. And none of our our toilets would work.
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Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
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The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.
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Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume.
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If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.
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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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